Gratituesday-Remembering

This week I've been thinking about my two friends that died last year. I was thinking about all the fun times we had together.
I was telling some other friends about the time that we went to Applebee's and we all had to wait for my husband to finish 3+ baskets of riblets. I can't remember exactly how many. I'm sure Kim would have remembered. She was great at remembering everything!
There was the time that Gary went skiing with us and and a few other friends. He was a trooper! He took lessons in the morning and skied on his own in the afternoon.
On another ski trip Kim went along and we went to Taos. It was a horrible day to ski!! They took their lessons and Gary hurt his knee. Oh I felt so bad!! We were supposed to ski for three days. Kim and Gary decided that they'd rather go sight seeing. Maybe that's when their relationship began... That was a fun trip!! Even though we ended up having to have the car towed and wait for hours for it to be repaired.
I went to a wedding this weekend and was reminded of the day that Kim helped me tie cute little ribbon around those small bottles of bubbles. I don't know how many we did, but there were A LOT of boxes.
Then there was the time that we went camping. It was Labor Day weekend. I had never cooked over an open fire before. I cooked some potatoes for breakfast and they stuck, BAD!! Afterwards Gary was like "you needed to season the pan". I'm like if you knew this why didn't you mention it before!! He was in charge of helping with the cooking from then on!
Kim's mom recently gave me a couple of pictures that Kim had taken at the hospital the day after Pumkin was born. She found out that we were going to be induced with Pumkin and ditched work so she could hang out at the hospital. What a friend!!
Gary was always eager to hold Pumkin! That was until the day they sat behind us in church and Pumkin spit up. :) Kim said she was proud of him for not throwing up himself! He still liked to hold the kid, he just kept her facing forward!

I thought that when I stopped at their graves in November it would make things a little more real. It didn't! Every once in a while I'll think that maybe they'll be coming to town soon. Or if I see a red car like Gary's or a silver one like Kim's I wonder for a split second if it's them.

Honey and I recently bought the movie Twister. I used to like that movie. I realized that I haven't watched it since before they died. I really had a hard time with it. It made me think too much about what they might have gone through while in that tornado. Those are images that I don't need in my head.

So aside from the latter I am thankful for all the happy memories I have of times that were spent with them. There are so many more times along with these that I will always cherish. I am so thankful that I was able to be a part of their lives for the time that we had. I am so thankful that they are able to enjoy Heaven together!!

Head on over to Heavenly Homemakers and check out all the others that have shared what they are thankful for! And I guess while you're there you can drool over Laura's strawberries!